Data protection, digital trust and AI: Building the foundations of India’s next growth story
By Probir Roy Chowdhury, Partner and Raj Ramachandran, Partner at JSA Advocates & Solicitors
India’s data protection journey has come full circle. What began as a constitutional conversation on privacy almost a decade ago, in the Supreme Court’s landmark Justice K. S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India judgment in 2017, is now evolving into a comprehensive regulatory framework governing how personal data is collected, processed, stored and protected.
The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023, together with the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025, marks a defining moment in India’s digital governance landscape. With implementation timelines extending through May 2027, organisations are moving from a phase of policy anticipation to one of operational readiness.
This new era of data protection is not merely about regulatory compliance. It is about embedding consent management, retention controls, breach response mechanisms and privacy-by-design principles into the core of organisational decision-making. In doing so, data...
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